ghosts

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ___sychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it__ rare that we__e listened to.

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Empires come and go. Chanterelles are timeless

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

Felix wasn't sure of his limits, if he had limits. After he'd been dead a while, he began to suspect he could swim to the bottom of the oceans. Beyond that. He suspected that he could swim so far down that he'd eventually go through the center of the earth and come out the other side. He could swim into the clouds, into the stars. Maybe there were ghosts on the other planets. Maybe there were ghosts laughing and splashing each other with the heat of the sun. He wasn't brave enough to find out.

Ghosts!_ gasped Alice. __eal, live ghosts?___o! Not __eal, live ghosts!_ Spooky, dead ghosts!

The one plus side to demonic infestation is that children cannot be harmed by a demon. The sanctified aura of a child somehow repels the demon and they can only oppress them if the parent makes a contract allowing them to do so. Because they can be very clever in tricking people into agreeing to additional contracts, it is important to never converse with a demon. Either call in a priest or move out as soon as possible.

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.

We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

Tyler shrugs. "It's a big world, Jo. Who am I to say what is and isn't possible?

It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited for her. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, row upon row of cold silent witnesses.

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.

He used to call vampires "the breathing ghosts"- for, as he put it, we existed in a kind of limbo-land between the living and the dead. We breathed, but we were not alive. We flitted through the air, but we still left foot prints on the ground. We were, and are, neither one nor the other, but something else entirely.

Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.